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August 14 - October 14, 2020
And a supposed heaven
In small communities, she believed, people are more accountable to one another. Serious misbehavior is harder to get away with, harder even to begin when everyone who sees you knows who you are, where you live, who your family is, and whether you have any business doing what you’re doing.
She was a better-than-average community leader.
People who are intelligent, ambitious, and at the same time, in the grip of odd obsessions can be dangerous.
P. 11
FRIDAY, JULY 22, 2033
Larkin Beryl Ife Olamina Bankole
“Larkin”
rewarding the victorious
she was born on my and my father’s birthday.
“Beryl”
The emerald is a kind of beryl.
“Ife”
Gray Mora
Allie Gilchrist
Emery
Joseph’s
Adela Ortiz.
SUNDAY, JULY 24, 2033
Welcomed Larkin
Travis
Harry and Zahra
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SATURDAY, JULY 30, 2033
Halstead
There had to be something wrong with a 35-year-old doctor who was still looking for a place to hang out his shingle.
“Doctor” Babcock.
What choice do we have? Even if we run and hide in Halstead, we’ll still be subject to Jarret.
“This is like nothing we’ve faced before.” Bankole’s shoulders slumped, and he sighed. “I don’t know that this country has ever had a leader as bad as Jarret or as bad as Jarret might turn out to be: Keep that in mind.
This theme was carried further in Adulthood Rites (1988), Book 2 of Lilith’s Brood.
If we’re to be anything other than smooth dinosaurs who evolve, specialize, and die, we need the stars.
When we have no difficult, long-term purpose to strive toward, we fight each other.
People seem to be willing to believe all kinds of stupid things—magic, the supernatural, witchcraft….But I couldn’t get them to believe in something real, something that they could make real with their own hands.
Now…now most of the people here accept the Destiny. They believe me and follow me, and…damned if I don’t worry even more.”
I’m afraid all the time?”
“Do you really think you can spend your life—your life, girl!—struggling and risking yourself, maybe risking our child for a…a cause whose fulfillment you…probably won’t live to see? Should you do such a thing?”
Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
If only my mother had agreed to go with my father to live peacefully, normally in Halstead, it wouldn’t have happened. Or at least, it wouldn’t have happened to us.
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2033
2 months after last entry
Gray Mora.
Allie Gilchrist’s
Adela Ortiz
“Noriko,”
Deborah and Melissa,”
Emery Mora
Tori and Doe?”
“Nina Noyer?”
“Mercy?”
“Kassi?”
